Tag: fileserver

Note: Volume group and logical volume names have been substituted here. I’m not entirely sure it’s necessary, but better safe than sorry. If following this, please use the names of your volume group[s] and logical volume[s]

I am in the process of combining fileserver information, and so I have been touching parts of the system not usually looked at in the normal case of day-to-day operations. For some reason, on one of my logical volumes I had created a partition table and added a partition. Of course, that worked normally so there was no reason to be aware of this — clearly I had blanked the fact that I did it at all not long after doing so — until recently.

The Problem

Logical volume vg/lv-old is used by another device.

After copying the data over to a new logical volume, I wanted to remove the now-unnecessary original logical volume that contained the partition. Easy, right?

# lvremove -v /dev/vg/lv-old
DEGRADED MODE. Incomplete RAID LVs will be processed.
Using logical volume(s) on command line
Logical volume vg/lv-old is used by another device.

Addendum

*: I’m not sure of the thought process behind “just try it again”.

I’m reminded of a short bit of Darrell Hammond’s stand up (paraphrased):

“You know that message you get when you dial the wrong number that tells you to ‘check you have the right number and dial again’? Well, women will check the number and try again. Men will try the same number, but this time we’ll push the buttons a ******** harder…”